... learning as much as I did in my Master’s program. joined online social networks, started using all the newest tools ... ASTD’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.” This month it’s: I’m ... person looking to get a job in the field of e-learning vs. a person who knows little about the term. I think one place to start is to look at the competencies and skills needed for various “e-learning” jobs. E-learning, of course, encompasses many areas - courseware designer, curriculum development, online trainer, blended learning ...

In Groups Vs Networks: The Class Struggle Continues, Stephen Downes makes this statement about assessment: I want to ... , particularly distance learning where we outline the objectives the performance metrics and the outcomes and all of ... prime example of this: every child is expected to meet the grade level goals, regardless of learning or other disabilities. We start from the assumption that everyone will learn and be assessed equally. A better ideal for the system would ... that everyone will learn and be assessed in the same way. If we start with the assumption that individuals will find ...

I often get asked by people in our field (the learning-and-performance field) about how to select a graduate school ... . If you can, go to one of the best schools. It will help you later as you network your way to career postings you want ... fundamentals of learning at the same time focusing on what is practical, but this is hard to find. Be prepared to have a ... for the top tier. Beware of the programs labeled as "adult learning, curriculum studies" and the like. These often are weak in the foundations of human learning (but not always). If you go to a school focused on instructional ...

... recommend joining the main e-learning associations, i.e. eLearning Guild, wherever you are in the world, as well as the eLearning Network (workplace learning) or the Association for Learning Technology (education), if you're based in Europe ... In the Learning Circuits Blog, the big question for October is "I'm interested in a career in e-learning. What ... e-learning landscape - as a manager, a consultant, a salesperson for a vendor, a designer, a developer, or a moderator/instructor? You also need to be clear whether you see yourself working primarily in education or in workplace learning ...

... successful network in history? If so, can you explain how this network might support learning in a practical sense?Note ... network in historyâ¬ý. There were some very nice suggestions such as:The network of international health care professionals linked together after experiencing outbreaks like the SARS.The solar system ⬠which networks planetsEvolution ⬠as a self-assembled network that led to higher life forms on EarthThe brain ⬠a dynamic, thinking and emotional ... examples. At least one important and immensely successful network is missing off this list: the telephone network.

... diversity. tags: connectivism, cck08, networks, learning, assessment, diversity Those of you who’ve taken ... Groups Vs Networks: The Class Struggle Continues ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes Transcript of a talk about the differences between groups and networks. Downes situates networks between individuals and groups, as a place where ... to me that networks offers that middle way. Networks offers that path that isn’t the individual and isn’t ... ;re about quality, they’re about mass. They’re about number.A network, by contrast, is an association ⬠...

The first week of our Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals is wrapping up. This week we looked at Social Networks ... learning professionals to know at a base level around social networks and their relationship to learning:What's a social ... social networks relate to personal learning?How do social networks relate to formal learning?I think we likely did okay on ... this home. And I think it's very interesting to see a formal learning experience using a social network teaching about using a social network for formal learning. Yes, it's only one example and hopefully people thought about lots of ...

... the large number of recommendations I've received - I'm now working on a new list:  100+ social networks for learning ... more networks for workplace learning professionals) It can be available on the Ning platform, or it might be a Facebook ... My list of 100+ learning professionals to follow on Twitter has caused a bit of activity this week.  Thousands of ... in more formal networks. I've currently got about 50 on my list, but this time I am going to ask for recommendations BEFORE I release the list.  So if you know of a suitable network to add then please let me know.  Here are the ...

Brandon Hall Research is the type of company where you own your ideas. That means when you have an idea, it’s your to implement. I seem to have settled in to all things ’social media’ after embracing social networks, blogging, microblogging, wikis, and presence technologies. As a result, I ended up not getting enough 2.0 action myself but rather working with other people to establish their own blogs, wikis, Twitter accounts, social networks, and wikis, etc ... Murphy, Innovations in Learning Recap (favorite quote: “freakin’ sweet!”) ...

... learning professionals putting together learning platforms. For example, the people today were really hot about live help as ... . Likewise, shouldn’t live help be a component of any important in-house learning event? For as long as I can remember ... , workshop, and pointer would provide a way for users to leave review. Social networking sites account for more web traffic ... for learning professionals: people go to social sites to commune with others; that’s the vehicle for most learning in organizations. So much for another day at the office.

PEW Internet and American Life Project have a great paper out right now with some interesting stats on use of the internet and email and how it effects workers. It is from September 24, 2008 and the data seems to have been collected earlier in the year.It caught my attention in relation to the Work Literacy Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals workshop/class/network (it's a bit of all of these). Someone was wondering if the tasks people are doing in relation to age have shifted over the last year or so. It seems that the older boomers maybe even seniors (in terms of generations) are more ...

One of the questions being raised this week in the free, online course Work Literacy: Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals is how social networks impact personal learning. To me, this is a critical part of The New Skills for knowledge ... this same person who had established this goal told us:Well, I just went over to check my email, and learned that ... learned about ning for the first time yesterday!I am really excited to be learning how to connect and do research this ... to experts in different areas. Social networks can be a good way to do this. Find groups who are interested in ...

At the beginning, after having this social learning idea in my head for awhile, I realized that what I needed to do was sell it.  So, I tried.  I told people what social learning was, how it might work and why they would like to use it. ... introduce social learning to an organization, I created a plan and took it to my boss.  He asked a few questions and said, â ... social learning to that, that he finally got it. The first two times I explained WHAT it was, HOW it worked and WHY we ... . Previously I approached explaining social learning leading with a noun instead of a verb. When we start with a verb we ...

... synchronous e-learning myths #2 and #3 but no #1. Last Friday I attended the eLearning Network's Thinking Synch event in ... imaginatively the technology could be used and how synchronous e-learning could stand alone, not as a poor imitation of the face ... instructional design for Caspian Learning, described how in his time at Teletech@Home, he put together an induction training ... focus for synchronous e-learning. That means two myths exploded in one go, Not bad going. Next: Synchronous e-learning ...